




Explanation:
This painting it was made in four canvas, all four create the whole story of the painting. But you can separate them, and each one can have a life of it's own. The first canvas on the bottom left is the wolf howling: the second canvas, has the paw touching the human hand; the third canvas, it's a family in a mountain; the fourth canvas, is the night sky.
Now let's explain how they work together. The first time I saw the documentarly of Living with wolves about the Sawtooth Pack, the image of the wolf howling stuck in my heart, what was his message? And then I saw all the lives of the wolves, and how important were the cubs to them, all the pack helped, so that's when I knew the message, the message is "family". So the painting starts the wolf howling sending the message on top of a hill, that in transforms in to a wolf paw in the next painting. The wolf paw and the human hand is the moment when Jim Dutcher new the pack will be alright. The moment where human and animal share information, and the human has a concern for their wellbeing. The hand then transforms into a mountain in the next canvas. It’s red, because it symbolizes the red road the native americans refer to, to the right road. The last canvas on the bottom is a family praying in a mountain receiving the message. If you go back to the
first canvas and move up the top canvas, where the night sky is, you will see how the message of the wolves transforms, reaches the sky and then it’s received byt the human family, and the message is: We are all one, we are all connected, we are all a family”… If you see closely in the message another wolf head is formed. This painting is called “Wolf’s Message”. It’s done in pastel with oil.
RESPONSE TO THE PAINTING
These are wonderful! Thanks!
Chris Anderson, Executive Director
Wolf Education & Research Center |
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Mixed Media: Oil and pastel
Size: Big one 3ft x1 ft; smaller ones 1x1 ft; together 3x3 ft
Private Collection Portland, Oregon 19/May/2009